SEX AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES: SAFE SEX. IS IT POSSIBLE?
It is often said that there is no such thing as totally safe sex (except masturbation on your own) and that the campaigns to increase condom usage fail to take into account that condoms can break in action. They even changed the expression ’safe sex’ to the more accurate ’safer sex’. It’s true that sex education is still in a process of evolution and we need to know where the misunderstandings are so that the information can be adjusted to account for them. Moreover, it is becoming more and more obvious that safer sex instructions need to be detailed enough so that there can be no room for error. It is not enough to say ‘use a condom’ without making it clear that putting it on at the last minute, just in time to catch the ejaculated semen, may be too late. Many people don’t realize that you needn’t actually ejaculate to pass on an infection. In particular syphilis, genital herpes and warts just need skin to skin contact, so for protection the condom needs to be put on before there is any genital contact at all.
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